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Observations from Sunday's 104-90 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center: -- Credit to Erik Spoelstra for starting Hassan Whiteside in the second half. -- Spoelstra can be stubborn. This time he recognized what needed to be done. -- But opening the fourth quarter with Udonis Haslem, Chris Andersen and Danny Granger might have been a bit much. -- All the while, Chris Bosh was providing steady scoring. -- And Dwyane Wade steady playmaking, amid another uneven outing for the Heat's point guards. -- The Heat's effort on the boards show they can do it. -- Now they need to do it more often. -- Here's how it went for the Heat at the start:...

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Observations from Sunday's 104-90 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center:
-- Credit to Erik Spoelstra for starting Hassan Whiteside in the second half.
-- Spoelstra can be stubborn. This time he recognized what needed to be done.
--...

Observations from Wednesday night's 107-95 victory over the Washington Wizards at AmericanAirlines Arena:
-- The buzz . . . is back
-- James Ennis! (Good Lord, head to YouTube right away).
-- And Chris Bosh as the man when needed. (It's beginning to...

When/Where: 7:30 p.m., AmericanAirlines Arena.
Tickets: Available at HEAT.com or 1-800-4NBA-TIX.
TV: Sun Sports. Radio: 790-AM, 104.3-FM, 106.5-FM, 710-AM (Spanish).
Scouting report: This is the third meeting of the four-game season series and the...

The number that drew the media to his locker following Wednesday's season-opening victory over the Washington Wizards was his point total. By Chris Bosh standards, 26 hardly was garish.
The number that drew his attention when he glance at the final...

This did not have the look of a team that entered 4-8 at home, coming off a home humiliation at the hands of the going-nowhere Utah Jazz.
This also did not have the look of a team that lost the previous matchup between these teams by 21 points.
It also,...

Yes, the Miami Heat are going to do it. Even after he turned his back on the franchise after four consecutive trips to the NBA Finals. Even after he gave every indication he would be returning as a free agent. Even after he defected from South Beach to...

By the end, the patience had run thin, razor thin.
The patience with a teammate who wasn't there for 28 games during the regular season.
The patience with a center who at times came up small.
The patience for a coach who ran the same defensive...

As he sat in a folding chair just outside of the locker room at AmericanAirlines Arena, Danny Granger surprisingly did not have the look of someone who had been consistently blindsided.
And yet, how could he possibly...

Part of the rhythm of the NBA is the continuum is that you get to pick up where you left off, especially the elite.
While the offseasons tend to be brief, there is ample time to reflect, reassess, rededicate.
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For Ray Allen, it wasn’t exactly the prettiest of stat lines.
Just 4 of 10 from the field and only 1 of 7 from 3-point range. Three rebounds. Two assists.
But on Wednesday night when the Miami Heat looked in trouble down eight with a little less than...

Ira WindermanHeat beat writerHeat in 6 gamesNow the playoff tests begin, and this could be like previous Heat-Celtics and Heat-Bulls series where the number of games doesn't reflect the competitiveness. Closing it out in Brooklyn sounds about right.
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MIAMI—After the Miami Heat opened the Eastern Conference semifinals with a dominant 107-86 win over Brooklyn, there was little talk in the Nets locker room about the fact they were coming off a grueling 7-game series, while the Heat were rested after...

(As the NBA remains shuttered, only now are the actual losses of games becoming real. To that end, we will offer a look on each scheduled game day of what would have been in play for the Miami Heat had they actually been playing.) The schedule: The Heat were